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About the
Everglades Litigation Collection
The University of Miami School of Law
Library possesses an important collection of Everglades
litigation documents. This collection is housed in the
Archives and Special Collections room on the fourth floor of
the Law Library building. The director, Alberto F. Montero
Valdes, can be reached at (305) 284-4093 or at amontero@law.miami.edu.
His office is located in room 490.
This enormous collection of legal and
scientific material was donated to the Law School on July
26, 1994, by the United States Attorney's Office. The
present collection represents the materials gathered during
the course of close to fifty lawsuits filed in state and
federal fora over water quality issues involving the Florida
Everglades in which the federal government was involved.
This site has been developed to provide
the general public with an understanding of the legal,
scientific and public policy issues surrounding the
preservation and stewardship of one of nature's unique
ecosystems.
Culled from the Law Library's Archives and
Special Collection's extensive Everglades Litigation
Collection, the site's contents present only a sample of its
holdings.
Everglades@law.miami.edu, is the largest known collection of
legal documents concerning the preservation and restoration
of the Everglades available to the public.
Site Layout
Collection
Highlights:
The Everglades Litigation Collection
contains over one million pages of pleadings,
deposition
and hearing
transcripts, exhibits, scientific data and agency reports;
one million microfilm reel frames covering extensive document
productions in the federal and state actions.
A 100 megabyte, 150,000 record, bibliographic database
which indexes over three quarters of the material produced
during litigation is undergoing technical upgrades and will
soon be available for searching.
We are in the process of converting 31
megabytes of deposition & hearing transcript files to
HTML. In the future 153 megabytes of scientific data
produced during discovery relating to hydrology, nutrient
loading, statistical analysis, remote sensing, restoration,
economic analysis, and other issues will also be made
available.
3,119 slides, 50 video tapes, hundreds of
maps and photographs, 20,000 pages of news and magazine
articles round out the rest of the collection's contents.
While, it would be impossible to make the
entire contents of the collection available on-line, we are
attempting to provide a representative sample of the
pleadings, transcripts, exhibits, and other documents that
would provide a balanced overview of the position's of the
diverse interests involved in Everglades-related litigation.
To see our on-line material, go to our Contents
or Documents
sections. We thank you for visiting our site. If you
have any questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to contact
us.
Research Protocols
Presently, the Collection is available for
use by students, faculty and the general public at the Law
Library. Appointments are required to be made at least 24
hours in advance.
The Collection's database
is accessible for on-line searching. This web site
represents, the Law Library plans to make selected parts of
the Collection available on-line in full-text. Please
visit regularly as we will add more material.
If you would like to make an appointment,
have any questions, and would like to know more about the
Collection, please contact the Everglades Litigation
Internet Project Director, at (305) 284-4093 or amontero@law.miami.edu
Credit:
Everglades photograph courtesy Philip
Greenspun
01/16/03
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